Tagged: tea board

What the Name on an Assam Orthodox Tin Guarantees

When a tin says "Assam Orthodox," it is making a legal promise: real whole-leaf tea grown and rolled in the Brahmaputra valley. Here is exactly what that promise covers, and the one border where it stops.

The Assam Tea Trade

Assam tea is grown by two entirely different kinds of producer and sold down two entirely different channels, one of them compulsory by law.

The Tocklai Institute

The Tocklai Tea Research Institute at Jorhat, the world's oldest tea research station: from India's first tea chemist in 1891 to the Tocklai Experimental Station of 1911, what its eleven divisions do, and the science it has produced since.